A good piece from the Guardian online: How to avoid running injuries. It's aimed more at people training for marathons than pissheads like us, but there's still lots of useful advice, including:
- Buy good shoes, get them fitted by an expert (good luck on that in Thailand), and replace them every 300-400 miles
- Land midfoot rather than on your heel and don't overpronate (that means landing on the inside of your foot)
- Stretch a bit after every run (notice how Solong does this?)
- Build core strength, especially glutes
- Listen to your body and be aware of small problems before they become more serious
- Wear a sports bra*
*If you're a girl or have big manboobs.
What??? Much easier answer - DON'T RUN
ReplyDeletePS. Boy I can't wait for the comments this will elicit. haha
This is something that I figured out years ago, the item below will have Stick Insect confused:
ReplyDelete- Buy good shoes, get them fitted by an expert (good luck on that in Thailand), and replace them every 300-400 miles
Is that replace them or reglue them every 3-400 miles?
Seriously, though taking Sundays run as an example, are we supposed to change shoes half way round the run?
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Gan Yao